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iPhone Why all the hate for iOS 7?

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Here is the problem that people have with iOS 7 icons, MOST are very happy with the functionality of the system, that is NOT the main problem. It's this lazy sloppy icon design that makes a mess of the UI.

Let's see what consistency we have to create a "feel" for iOS 7 -

Dayglo colours? Nope, they feature on around half of the new icons while the others are flat and grey/black/white.

Flat colours? Nope, Game Centre bucks the trend with highlighted and shadowed "bubbles".

Consistent gradients (on those icons that have them), nope, half go from bright to dark, the rest the other direction.

Fully coloured rounded squares? Nope, some are but a few have oddly white backgrounds (full white could be considered as the "colour" in the case of Calendar but not the others).

All graphical content either fills the rounded square or fits into an internal square (sorry, getting a little "designery" here) - nope, half take up the entire square while half fit into a smaller, internal square.


I could go on but this is getting my point across, there is just no consistent visual design to iOS 7. That said, I and many others still like the overall system - we just expect more polish from Apple. More competence in design than this mish-mash, that is why people are disappointed* Those that blindly praise everything Apple do will not help the company progress but as they are here actually start to regress...

*We know it's only a Beta but that's all we have to go on at present and Apple rarely change the fundamentals from Beta.
 
Rogifan said:
I find it amusing that prior to WWDC there were all these comments and articles about how iOS needs to be more than just a re-skin, it needs to be about functionality not just putting a fresh coat of paint on the UI. Now that iOS 7 has been revealed and its clearly not just a re-skin - lots of new functionality has been added - some of the same complainers/haters are whining about the app icons being ugly. Or putting polls up on their site asking if people like the new design. So people claim that its about functionality not design, yet the first thing they b**ch about is design.
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Which means the design and functionality both matter... OBVIOUSLY people want iOS 7 to look good. How is that even surprising to you? Nobody said design doesn't matter. They said iOS needs to be more than JUST design.
 
Why all the hate? Because their will always be a group of people who will not like something regardless, even if iOS7's UI ticked all the right buttons, you'd still have threads of people complaining up the wazoo about something they don't like.
 
RenoG said:
Why all the hate? Because their will always be a group of people who will not like something regardless, even if iOS7's UI ticked all the right buttons, you'd still have threads of people complaining up the wazoo about something they don't like.
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And there will always be people that are happy with everything that's shoved in their face (particularly the fanboys of whatever company is being discussed). I tend to think in the middle is the normal, rational person who might like some things and dislike others - it's not just a black and white subject. Why do so many people seem to be making a fuss over the icons/colours in iOS 7? Maybe with enough seemingly unhappy it really is just a little bit crap?

I love iOS 7 in many ways, I don't like the new icons and colour scheme which to me see half-assed in their execution, is that allowed?
 
With regards to the icons - Game Center for example looks more like a place holder than anything else with nothing visual to indicate the substance of the application.
Icons are one of the easiest things to change - evidenced by the simple mock ups that popped up hours after the keynote.
I expect the icons to change as we near GM and there to be more cohesion with the overall design of them.
 
diogolg said:
iOS7 is great, the icons…
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This. I don't hate it, but I took it off my iPhone 5 because I really did not care for the brighter, almost fluorescent color of some of the icons.

It's just a bit much for me on a device I use so often. So I'll stick with iOS 6 for now, and wait for a version that lets me change to a different colored icon theme or whatever.

But I respect that others like the colors. The features and functionality are great, it's just the icon colors that turn me off.
 
Jimrod said:
And there will always be people that are happy with everything that's shoved in their face (particularly the fanboys of whatever company is being discussed). I tend to think in the middle is the normal, rational person who might like some things and dislike others - it's not just a black and white subject. Why do so many people seem to be making a fuss over the icons/colours in iOS 7? Maybe with enough seemingly unhappy it really is just a little bit crap?

I love iOS 7 in many ways, I don't like the new icons and colour scheme which to me see half-assed in their execution, is that allowed?
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No I agree with you and everyone else regarding the icons, its just that I've been around these fourms long enough to know that no one is ever satisfied, ever, and after a while this place just becomes a hugh board of noise. I know, I know, it just the nature of things whenever something new comes out, I'm just saying.
 
I was very skeptic to the new os at first. But after a while i really started to like it, a lot. The whole os has this nice 3D feeling that im really loving. I can really see apple going 3D retina in the next 5-10 years.

The os still needs some work, it could use a little bigger font and organization of the text. Sometimes you don´t even now what app your in, its just white background and text in all of the apps. Im not loving the new multitask view. And I was hoping for more gesture control. Would be really nice to pinch to homescreen. And also I would like them to add some sort of livefeed to the left of the homescreen, where spotlight used to be, I wonder what they have going for that space?

But other than that you really get used to the new look and feel and I have started liking it. :cool:

Edit: Forgot the horrible safari icon. it dosent fit in. Make it one color like the other stock dock icons. thanks! :)
 
I appreciate this comment on an iOS 7 thread on android central:


"I think they did a pretty decent job. Looks clean. I think the reason maybe more features weren't introduced is because when Ives took over, he had only 9 months to get rid of all the garbage that Scott Forestall had put in with the green felt, wood bookcases, fake card shredders, fake leather calendars, etc . If you watch the little video of Ives talking about it, he said it was a Beginning."
 
Krazy Bill said:
Those people are weird. I was embarrassed for them (and their misplaced orgasms) :(

Seriously.
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This. That crowd whacked for everything. Apple should have told them to calm down and act like they've been there before. I expected to see a Tex Avery wolf beating himself up in the crowd the way they freaked out over the most pitiful things.


On topic: I think people expected to be wowed. I would have been pleased with a few of the things I wanted: intents and opening up the keyboard.
I'm not feeling the rainbow, pastel+dayglo mess that looks like teenage girls colored it at a sleepover to get a palette for their nails. Or gaussian frost-blur. It looks cheesy like lens flare in games.
 
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Not having used it, but watching it online, I think the one thing I will miss is the colorful icons, the new flat ones have color, but the icons in iOS especially since the IP4 with retina, just pop out at you and screen I am crystal clear.

I will give iOS7 a fair shake, I am more concerned on how it will perform on the IP5 since I am not upgrading to the 5S, and what's more, very interested in a bigger screen for the IP6 or whatever they call it.

I think the features being released this year were LONG LONG overdue and happy to see them, no reason for me to JB anymore with Command Center :) YAY
 
Why do some act like it's wrong to dislike or be unimpressed the iOS7 new design?

IMO ..... Most of those who praise this new design would criticize if it was just another mockup. It's mind boggling what Apple can get get away with.
 
For me personally it's a lot of (ugly) aesthetic changes and not a lot of useful changes. I think the design is absolutely horrible. There is too much white (especially in the Mail and Messages apps) and too many bright colors, both of which may be a problem for visually impaired people. There is no easy way to differentiate between what's text and what's a button (for instance, in the Messages app at the top). The only cue they have is the color, which again is a problem for those who can't differentiate colors. The font is just too thin and hard to read, and even the clock on the lock screen is hard to see depending on what background you use. The lack of borders everywhere (such as around buttons) I feel is a big design no-no. The dots replacing the signal bars is again problematic...it's harder to see and it takes up much more real estate in the status bar. There's just too much translucency that it makes it look just confusing...for instance I think the quick settings panel should just be a solid color and not this semi-see-through grey. There is no uniformity among the icons (why does the Camera icon look like that, for example?) and even elsewhere in the OS (like the icons in the quick settings panel--why are they circular?). It's just a big mish-mash of design that looks like it took them 2 weeks to put together. The features that are still missing are some sort of widgets (I would have been happy with the Weather app with an actual temperature) and actionable notifications (so for instance we could reply to a text message from the notification itself, and not have to exit the app we are in and then come back to it by double-clicking Home).

And why is it all shown on white iPhones? No dark theme for the black one? I really feel like this OS was designed for younger women, with the emphasis on bright colors and the ease of use. I know it sounds sexist but the bright colors are just a huge turn-off.
 
After using iOS7 for two days, I went back to iOS 6. Couldn't be happier!

First I'll start with the icons, as they are on everyone's hit list. Lots of people are judging the icons based on Apple's "default screenshots". Real world home screens don't look as bright and neon. Yes, some of the icons should (and will) be changed. I'm not a huge fan of the icon set, but once setup, I thought my home screen looked great.

My issues with iOS 7 extend much further than "How does the Calander icon look?". For me, the issue with iOS 7 lies with usability and visual consistency. There isn't nearly enough contrast, and the lack of buttons can be visually confusing. The usage of white throughout the OS is great, but can be over-saturating

Speaking of white....I use Safari more than any other app in iOS. Safari for iOS 7 is the worst iOS browser I've ever used (i've tried all the top dogs). I wish I was kidding. While the interface looks clean, navigation is horrendous. If Safari doesn't get "iOS 6 mode", it could be the killler blow for me and iOS 7.

Apple locking down Safari as the default browser has never been an issue, because I love the functionality of previous Safari versions. However, if I'm forced to use an alternate browser, without the ability to set it as default, it could be the death blow of me and iOS....which would be a shame. Sounds crazy, but browsing is the #1 priority for my phone. I can't use an OS without a stellar browsing experience.

Love the iPhone and the ecosystem. I hope I don't have to change ships.
 
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Makes me laugh that just because someone moans about something all of a sudden they're brandished as someone who just has to find faults in life, not happy unless they're complaining etc. I'm sure a number of people on here are ordinary rationale folk who just don't like it, plain and simple. If some people like it great, but why do they instantly dismiss those that don't?

I'm British and we don't complain ;) But sometimes something gets so bad that even the British complain, and this is one of them.

Some of the new functionality I really like, and a welcomed improvement. Obviously it's a bit buggy, but I'm sure these will be ironed out by the time it's properly released.

My biggest complaint though is the way the UI looks, and I'm sure that will change very little. The whole UI is very bland and uninspiring, such as the settings menu (in fact all menus), the look of the calendar, emails, SMS etc etc. But I could put up with this if it didn't look child like. iOS has always been very sophisticated and stylish, very professional looking. It now looks like it's aimed at 12 year old kids :( One of the worst things is how folders look on the home screen ie the solid grey background, shocking. On saying that sometimes it looks more translucent than others, so I'm hoping on full release it's going to be much more translucent. At the moment they stick out like a sore thumb.

Mr Ive keeps harping on about uniformity, but it's far from uniform. As mentioned already on here the icon styling isn't uniform. Neither are other things. For example most menus and bars are blue on white, yet calendar is red on white, likewise with the music player menus. Not an issue as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time contradicts this "uniformity".

I personally liked the skeuomorphism of the old iOS 6, but I can live without it if the new OS UI looked nice/interesting, but it's the most bland UI I think I've seen. Also, in making it bland they've made it less legible and not as easy to see things. For example, when scrolling through calendar you can't quickly see which month you're in. Also, when I go to the email menu it's not easy to see the numbers telling you how much mail you have in each mailbox. It's not exactly difficult, but you have to actually look rather than just being able to glance like you can with iOS 6.

As I said, I'm sure there will be a number of changes, but the overall appearance won't change, and it is this that I dislike :(
 
iOS 7 icons must have good enough contrast to the background

I think most of the iOS 7 innovations are good. But I surely hope that the designers take very good care of the important need that the icons must be clearly visible; that is: have a good contrast in relation to the (back)ground. This MAY be a problem if in general the icon colors are too "soft" or "pastel-like".
 
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